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Users can differentiate between "amazon.com" and "amazone.com" via the browser's location bar. There's nothing stopping the owner of "amazone.com" from getting
by klync 16y ago
Users can differentiate between "amazon.com" and "amazone.com" via the browser's location bar. There's nothing stopping the owner of "amazone.com" from getting an SSL cert signed by a "trusted authority", so SSL does not help in this respect. My opinion is that conflating identity with encryption is a fundamental problem.
- Retric 16y agoSome users can differentiate... assuming they notice. The issue is in the real world building a system to handle both typos and hostel networks requires some form of authentication.